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Show But Few Regulars Escape Defeat in California Primaries San Francisco. Aug IS. Returns available at midnight last night show that the Insurgent s nominated congressmen con-gressmen In the second, fifth and .-cventh districts. In Tuesday's primary pri-mary election The early count In the southern part of the state Indicated Indi-cated that Iewls Klrby. Insurgent would be nominated for congres over S. C. Smith. Incumbent, but laler returns re-turns from San Bernardino leave tho issue in doubt. William Kent appears to have a decided de-cided majority In the second district over Duncan F. McKlnlay. who was president Taft'.s personal representative representa-tive on the Pacific coast In 19oS. Kent claims every county in the district, McKlnlay barely escaping defeat In his own town. Davison, of San Jose, the candidate candi-date of the state machine and the San I Kranclsco administration, was dofeat-1 dofeat-1 ed by a count of probably 2 to 1, I Ly Congressman E. A. Hayes, Call fornia's Insurgent congressman. W. n. Stephens of lx)s AiigolC3. Insurgent In-surgent candidate of the Llncoln-Rooscvelt Llncoln-Rooscvelt leugu". won over Congressman Congress-man Jnmes McLaughlan by 2.000 Congressman Julius Kahn. regular, v as w ithout opposition in the Fourth d.i-trlrt Insurgent Republican papers throughout the state came out strongly strong-ly today In support of his Democratic opponent. Walter McArlhur. The status of Judge John D Works, j indorsed by the Lincoln-Roosevelt organization or-ganization for United States senator, is still problematical, but his supporters sup-porters claim , substantial plurality of the aggregate vote, as indicated by the partial an. I Incomplete returns, re-turns, which give Works 30.3S2, ami Edwin A. Mettcrve, the regular candidate, candi-date, 27.5S7. From returns at band. Indications ate that the next state legislature will have a slight Insurgent major-in. major-in. While but half of the Republican vote U in, it is conceded that the L'ucoln-Uoosevelt league elected all Jtr candidates, with the exception of Associate Justice of tho Supreme Court. Melvin. Superintendent of Pub-'lic Pub-'lic Instruction- IHatt and the possible pos-sible exception of Its candidates for secretary of state and superintendent of public printing. The latest estimates esti-mates give Johnson's plurality as approximately ap-proximately 20,000. |